CARICOM national jumps from boat and swims to better opportunities in Barbados
Article by February 3, 2021
It was an act of desperation and a chance to provide for his family that led a Guyanese man to jump off a cement boat and swim to shore.
That was the defence put forward by attorney-at-law Jamar Bourne as he mitigated on behalf of 36-year-old Colis Arlington Paul, of no fixed place of abode, but who said he lived at Rices, St Philip.
Paul pleaded guilty before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes to entering Barbados by sea except than at a port of entry and disembarking without the consent of an immigration officer.